About Rockport

Rockport is a tiny coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Washington. With a population of 354 people and just one neighborhood, Rockport is the 282nd largest community in Washington.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rockport is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 75.6% of the Rockport workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Rockport is a town of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockport who work in food service (8.54%), office and administrative support jobs (8.54%), and management occupations (1.83%).

Another important characteristic of Rockport is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Rockport are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. This is certainly the case with Rockport, which has a vibrant tourist economy.

Being a small town, Rockport does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Rockport Information and Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Rockport is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 14.96%: just 10.42% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rockport in 2000 was $45,777, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $183,108 for a family of four.

The people who call Rockport home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rockport is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Rockport include German, English, Norwegian, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Irish, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Rockport is English.